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A review by thebookberrie
The Long Distance Playlist by Tara Eglington
This book was aggressively just okay.
The Long Distance Playlist is about two teens named Isolde and Taylor who used to be best friends until they had a big fight. They haven't talked in 18 months until Taylor messages Isolde to help her get through a break up. Through emails, DMs, and playlists, the two bond over their hardships and their friendship slowly becomes something more.
I don't have much to say about this book because it was okay, but I was never really 100% in it. The format threw me off because it had normal first person POVs mixed in with all the emails and DMs and I wish it had just picked one. It was so messy to go back and forth between all the different types and they kept referencing things about the emails and IMs and I was confused. The entire book felt like it was 600 pages long too.
I didn't like reading their emails because they were trying to be clever but really felt like an adult trying too hard to sound like a teenager. Their emails were also sooo long and I couldn't imagine emailing that much back and forth- why didn't they just instant message each other instead? Damn.
The writing was so dramatic and everything was pretty emo and so extra but I didn't hate the romance. I thought their bonding and falling in love was actually sweet (though really sappy) and it took its time too. Plus some of their playlists slapped. But of course a lot of drama happens around miscommunication between the two of them and because they were long distance for almost all of the book, it just felt worse.
One of the characters has a prosthetic leg and there was a lot said about how people view him because of his disability and that was some scolding hot tea. There's a whole chapter where he just goes off ranting about people being shitty to him and I support that kind of energy.
Also does anyone want to talk about the cover and how the guy has a normal foot when he shouldn't? Cute cover but yikes.
The Long Distance Playlist is about two teens named Isolde and Taylor who used to be best friends until they had a big fight. They haven't talked in 18 months until Taylor messages Isolde to help her get through a break up. Through emails, DMs, and playlists, the two bond over their hardships and their friendship slowly becomes something more.
I don't have much to say about this book because it was okay, but I was never really 100% in it. The format threw me off because it had normal first person POVs mixed in with all the emails and DMs and I wish it had just picked one. It was so messy to go back and forth between all the different types and they kept referencing things about the emails and IMs and I was confused. The entire book felt like it was 600 pages long too.
I didn't like reading their emails because they were trying to be clever but really felt like an adult trying too hard to sound like a teenager. Their emails were also sooo long and I couldn't imagine emailing that much back and forth- why didn't they just instant message each other instead? Damn.
The writing was so dramatic and everything was pretty emo and so extra but I didn't hate the romance. I thought their bonding and falling in love was actually sweet (though really sappy) and it took its time too. Plus some of their playlists slapped. But of course a lot of drama happens around miscommunication between the two of them and because they were long distance for almost all of the book, it just felt worse.
One of the characters has a prosthetic leg and there was a lot said about how people view him because of his disability and that was some scolding hot tea. There's a whole chapter where he just goes off ranting about people being shitty to him and I support that kind of energy.
Also does anyone want to talk about the cover and how the guy has a normal foot when he shouldn't? Cute cover but yikes.